Preserving memories of Saint Mary's in Nanticoke, PA

Our Lady of Czestochowa Church (also known as Saint Mary's) in Nanticoke, PA is scheduled to close on  Monday, July 26, 2021, just three months short of its 120th anniversary. Since I started my main blog, Another Monkey, seventeen years ago I have  been posting memories and photographs of the church I grew up in. I have created this new blog as a place to centralize and share all those photographs and memories.

(Contrary to what was said in this official announcement, St. Mary's has not gone unused since early 2020. All churches in the Diocese of Scranton were closed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The primary site for the consolidated Saint Faustina Kowalska parish, the church formerly known as Holy Trinity, reopened a few weeks later for Masses without a congregation in attendance, broadcast online. After several months a very few individuals, selected by lottery, were allowed to attend Mass. Gradually that number increased, until in late June 2021 the church was fully reopened. All this time, while regular Masses were not celebrated at the secondary site, St. Mary's, funerals of parishioners who had been lifelong members of Our Lady of Czestochowa were being held there, accompanied by full funeral Masses. Many former members of St. Mary's were wondering when weekly Masses would resume at the secondary site. The above announcement appears to answer that question.)